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Microsoft Faces Korean Deadline
nmccart wrote to mention an article on the Yahoo! news service stating that South Korea has leveled a deadline at Microsoft. The deadline is the newest addition to that country's anti-trust ruling against the OS maker."South Korea's antitrust regulator has given Microsoft Corp. the deadline of Aug. 24 to comply with a landmark ruling ordering the world's largest software maker to unbundle some of its products from its Windows computer operating system and pay fines. On Friday afternoon, the Fair Trade Commission said it has sent documents on the punitive sanctions to Microsoft, which was ruled last December to have violated the nation's fair trade laws by tieing its instant messenger, audio, and video software to Windows. The commission also confirmed its order that Microsoft pay 32.4 billion won (US$33.5 million) in the December ruling on the U.S. software giant's unfair business practices."
It's leveraging a monopoly to enter into other markets: the very DEFINITION of an antitrust suit. Since Apple is already in all of those businesses, and they don't have a monopoly on anything, really, (You could argue MP3 players, but they don't really have a monopoly, because if they do something stupid people have tons of viable choices) the govt's don't really care.
no disrespect to south korea, but this would have been a ton more effective if the whole US thing about breaking up their 'monopoly up' was completed instead of the runner up taking office and whoever it was decided not to do it.
for some reason i doubt microsoft will change their product, even for their country alone..
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